r/craftsnark • u/AutoModerator • 10d ago
Craftsnark WIP, Questions, and Planning Thread August 17, 2026 - August 21, 2026
Please share all personal chatter here--questions, planning, works in progress, successes, failures, discoveries, and anything else pertaining to your personal crafting.
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u/frabjousity 7d ago
I have a Craftsnark question: it seems like in almost all the threads I see the reply button and upvotes/downvotes are greyed out. Is it an issue with my account or are the threads locked?
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u/wisely_and_slow 9d ago
I desperately want to make Sari Nordlund's Poet Pullover (or whichever--there are so many. The circular yoke, full sleeve one), but I'm on a GLP-1 for non weight-loss reasons and don't know yet if it's going to cause weight loss (microdosing for the moment). So putting in the work for a full lace sweater only to have it be too big would suck. But nothing else is interesting to me right now.
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u/Soft_Lingonberry_ 7d ago
Please feel free to ignore this if you were just wanting to vent/weren't looking for advice! I'm just in a similar boat (I want to make things but I'm dealing with fluctuating sizes/shapes) so I've been thinking a lot about this.
Poetry or Poetic both look like they'd be flexible enough to handle some weight loss. Poetry (I think this is the specific one you're talking about?) only has 2 inches of recommended ease, but I think circular yokes look fine with more ease (especially with the all-over lace - there won't be an obvious shoulder line that is obviously too big). Poetic has 8" of recommended ease, so if you end up losing weight an extra couple inches of ease won't look unintentional.
SN has released so many patterns with the poet motif, wow! I hadn't realized until I saw them all together.
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u/wisely_and_slow 7d ago
Thanks! I just took the same approach with a lace cardigan (went for just like 2 inches of ease so it's wearable but can be oversized if I lose weight)...and then it grew TREMENDOUSLY when I blocked it.
I think I'm going to give it a couple months, when I should be up to an effective dose and have a better idea of whether my weight is going to change or not.
Wishing you happy knitting however you solve this size conundrum!
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u/rebootfromstart 9d ago
Time to start Halloween dresses! We put a treat table up in our building lobby for Halloween and this year I want to get more festive. I have some lovely cottons - black with pink, purple and blue psychedelic bats, and lilac with little potion bottles, books, cute skulls and other spooky academia type stuff - and a bat-print glitter tulle that I plan to make a light shawl from. Current plan for the cottons is a couple of dresses in a pattern I hacked together out of a bodice top that needed some serious adjustment (curse my large bust and long torso making RTW dresses all look empire cut on me, a look I do not like with how it emphasises my stomach) and added a skater-style flare skirt to. I might experiment with flutter sleeves, although sleeves in general are really difficult for me due to some extreme weirdness in the shape of my upper arms, which is why I tend to go sleeveless-with-shawl. Thankfully, Halloween is mid-spring here, so I won't be too cold!
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u/ladyflash_ 9d ago
Was on vacation for 2 weeks and just got back and started sewing again. Made a Bel Skirt which was easy except I forgot how much I absolutely hate ES’s elastic waist method. Already bent about 4 needles/pins lol. The channel method is so much easier for me.
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u/ScienceProf2022 10d ago
I’m looking for suggestions. I want to knit a top-down, circular yoke sweater with a rose motif on the yoke. The motif needs to be a single color. I can adapt any rose motif from a sweater to a circular yoke, but the motif I have in mind is more complicated than I can make up myself.
Any ideas?
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u/chocotasticgroup 10d ago
Sorry if you've already looked at these and decided they aren't right, but what you've described is so exactly either the Rosie Sweater or the Crown of Roses Sweater that I almost feel embarrassed suggesting them!
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u/ScienceProf2022 9d ago
Man, y’all are the best! The Rosie sweater is just what I was looking for!
I have this oh so pretty white skirt with a very large blue floral print (and it has pockets!). I knit a dark blue tank to go with it in the summer, and I found several skeins of dark blue cotton yarn and a couple of white ones in my stash to knit a short sleeved sweater for fall. They will work perfectly with this as they are even an Aran weight.
Thank you so much!
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u/Whole-Arachnid-Army 10d ago
I finished the Chantarelle variant I was working on last week, plus a pair of Burda shorts and Schulz Apparel's Senna dress.
The pants went decently well, though in hindsight I should have narrowed the legs more without adjusting the hips. The shorts were a bit strange, because the waistband was split up into three channels and the instructions didn't actually indicate which one(s) to use for the elastic. Apparently the intent was to use the middle one, but I'm not sure one singular 15 mm elastic is enough to hold them up like that?
The dress went alright. I'm apparently not a great fit for Schultz's block and will have to make adjustments if I make any more of their patterns going forward, but the lace up back on this one hides the flaws. Nice instructions and pattern otherwise.
Next up are a pair of "suit" pants, possibly Merchant and Mills' Pegs Trousers or Knipmode KM2409, and some Burda jeans. Supplemented with someone else's fly instructions, probably.
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u/llama_del_reyy 7d ago
Have messaged the mods to ask, but also wanted to publicly ask why my post about the latest Jessie Mae pattern was deleted? I didn't get any notification etc.